Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part III

[bigdamnprincipal]

In order to give people a place to get away from the traffic jam of the buffet and information tables, most of the chairs and tables had been set up further out on the lawn, away from the school building. The bonfires were going strong, and there was plenty of room for everyone to sit down and enjoy themselves. Assuming they weren't too busy still trying to figure this place out.

[OCD is up! This is the SECOND post for general mingling. Use this post if your browser can't handle the comment load of the first mingling post. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"You're not too picky about your buds, are you?" That would've sounded more like teasing if she'd bothered with the tone. But he was a smart guy, he could follow, she was sure. "And I don't look good in plaid."

Also a lie.

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Is that an attempt at insulting me?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow. "Really though, I can get a bud from anywhere. I don't need you especially if you're not hot in plaid. I should've guessed that."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"Oh Alex, if I was attempting to insult you, you wouldn't need to ask," she assured him, idly. "And I lose all my charm in plaid. Really."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Oh Kate, you couldn't touch me with your insults," Alex retorted, shaking his head. "You wouldn't even come close."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"Wouldn't be so sure," she replied, "but I wasn't really claiming that, anyway."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Nah, I can be sure because you wouldn't," Alex said, shaking his head. "What were you claiming?"

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"That you'd at least know I was trying to insult you," she explained easily enough. "Not that they'd necessarily hit."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You trying to insult me, Kate?" Alex wondered. "After I shared my cigarettes with you? How cruel. See if I ever give you anything again."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"I'm not trying to insult you, Alex." Hey, this time she almost let out something resembling a dry laugh. "But I might now that you couldn't keep up with me."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Pfft. I don't have to keep up with you," he said dismissively, waving a hand. "I'm perfectly fine doing my own thing. If you don't wanna be in it, then hit the road, Blondie."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"Wow, that's original," she snorted. "Unless you're alluding to me having an uncanny resemblance to a young Debbie Harry from this angle, in which case it's actually insightful."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, you're not that hot," Alex said, rolling his eyes. "On a scale of one to ten, you're about...a six. Lots of people above you, Blondie."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

Kate quirked a brow, a little. "Wow, why so mean all of a sudden?"

She really wasn't all that affected. Outwardly, anyway. Inside it was so much harder to tell.

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You consider that mean?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow. "I thought you had some legendary thick skin or something."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"Well, it's currently pretty bruised," she retorted. "Bruises make stuff hurt more, right?"

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"What, like literally?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow. "You fall down some stairs or something?"

Wasn't that the typical excuse?

"Run into a door?"

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"Got beat up."

Maybe she said the truth just to see his reaction.

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Hey, she was talking to the abused kid. He didn't even flinch.

"By who?"

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

Even a nonreaction was a reaction. One that Kate found herself appreciating.

"What's left of my best friend," she said evenly. "He's a vampire now."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Vampires. Of course. How lovely.

Alex winced and looked away. When he spoke again, he sounded sincere, at least. "Sorry to hear that. I know what it's like."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"Yeah, it's a barrel of laughs, right?" Kate replied quietly, but voice dripping with sarcasm. One of her hands slid into her pocket for the other cigarette as she held her other hand out for his lighter again. "This place likes giving us experiences like that."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"It'll get better," Alex replied, handing her his lighter without hesitation. "Guy who used to be my roommate ended up a vampire in that weird other universe. I had to kill him."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"I'm sorry." And that was nothing but sincere. Quiet, still, and she kept her eyes on the flame she'd just conjured up from the lighter. "Did you disassociate like crazy? So that it wasn't really him?"

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I tried not to think about it at all," Alex told her, shrugging. "I just buried it with a bunch of other stuff I don't want to think about. Out of sight, out of mind. It's a part of my life I am actively trying to forget."

Re: More General Mingling [Spring 2011]

[vanillajello]

"Wish I could do that," Kate said mildly, as she was giving him the lighter back. "But it's more of an ongoing situation still, I guess."